RimWorld June Teaser Announcement (2025)
And just as I was about to start a new colony, BOOM! New (presumably) DLC teaser for RimWorld!!! Even though I haven't played this in over a year, I am super excited for this announcement.
What do we know so far?
Tia Young (the marketing director at Ludeon) just posted a single image titled “Incoming transmission: 06.11.2025”. The image itself looks like another new character (a la previous DLCs) at center stage with a lava planet and a whole bunch of space stations and ships in the background. The character seems to be wearing some sort of space suit and has a pet crow/raven on his shoulder. He's equipped with a rifle, canisters, compass, pouch and two glass containers containing mushrooms and gems.
What does this all mean?
What's most obvious to me is the space focus of this new teaser. Both the picture and the “incoming transmission” message seem to indicate that there will be opportunities to communicate and travel between space stations and maybe even other planets. One other exciting new thing I see here is the crow! Looks like we're finally going to have birds and perhaps other flighted animals in the game. Taking this game system to it's logical extreme, it will be interesting to see if we'll also see new flying units/enemies in the game. How will the devs handle presenting this to the player without making it confusing? And if they figure that out does this also possibly imply a new Z level system with underground caverns? I doubt it, but it's fun to think about.
The rifle looks new to me and for some reason makes me think “rail gun” or some sort of laser weapon. The compass, canisters and pouch seem to imply exploration making me wonder if that will be a large focus of this DLC. Perhaps the mushrooms and gems we see in the glass containers are exotic new materials and/or drugs our colonists can use to make themselves more powerful.
Now it's important to remember that RimWorld was primarily designed as a story generator first and game second. Meaning all of these new additions aren't here just for the “fun” of it – they're here to help us create even more gripping and exciting stories. All we can do now is patiently wait until hopefully June 11th and not November 6th 😂.